Quotes About Redemption

How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

At this, I said, ëI have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.í

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.